Fans flock to Wild scrimmage

Fun scrimmage down at the X tonight. 6,500 in the arena -- by far the most for a development camp scrimmage in my soon to be eight seasons covering the Wild.

Remember, Sunday at 11 a.m., there is another scrimmage as development camp ends. First 1,000 fans get a Zach Parise T-shirt. Get here early. Today, so many people lined up early, the Wild opened the gates nearly 30 minutes before the 6:30 scheduled time.

Also, remember, I am officially on vacation, so others will have the keys to this blog.

I will, however, be hosting Dan Barreiro's show on KFAN on Friday from 3-6:30 p.m. We'll be talking everything, but I do have some hockey guests on, including Wild coach Mike Yeo and new Wild center Zenon Konopka, who is in the Finals of the Ping-Pong charity game in Toronto tonight. Also, center Matt Cullen may come on. It's his Cully's Kids weekend and the Cullens have a very cool announcement Friday. Also on the show will be former Panthers coach and Blue Jackets coach and GM Doug MacLean, who is quite the personality, and Columbus Dispatch hockey writer Aaron Portzline to talk about the ongoing Rick Nash saga.

Also, Star Tribune Twins beat writer Lavelle E. Neal will join to talk the Twins and everything, for that matter, as well as Fox Sports North's Kevin Gorg.

As for the scrimmage, it ended in a 4-4 tie thanks to a last-minute comeback by Team White.

By the way, no Scandella due to there's nothing to prove, and Cuma (groin) and Kuemper (shoulder rehab) didn't play.

4-3 Green: Charlie Coyle from Foucault on a beauty one-timer with 1:54 left.

4-4 White: Steven Kampfer crashes the net and finds a loose puck with eight seconds left. Remember, Kampfer played 13 games for the Wild last season after being acquired from Boston for Greg Zanon. He scored two goals and one assist.

The scrimmage ended with penalty shots. The fans were delighted.

First half

1-0 Green vs. Matt Hackett: Jason Zucker, a 2010 second-round pick, blows by the D for a breakaway goal after Mikael Granlund, a 2010 first-round pick, sends him a blue-line to blue-line pass through traffic. Justin Fontaine, a free agent pickup last summer, with the second assist.

With about 15 lower-bowl sections full and fans still coming in, the Wild's prospect game is about to begin. Here are the lines:

TEAM GREEN

Forwards

Zucker (16)-Granlund (64)-Fontaine (52)

Everson (82)-Phillips (61)-Bulmer (54)

Nanne (70)-Gilmour (57)-Farnham (78)

Caron (68)-Leblanc (81)-Sandlak (80)

Defensemen

Corbett (60)-Dumba (55)

Draeger (41)-Lorenz (29)

Baldwin (38)-Gunnarsson (42)

Goalies

Gustafsson (50)

Michalek (30)

TEAM WHITE

Forwards

Bussieres (49)-Larsson (47)-Coyle (63)

Foucault (72)-Haula (56)-Bertschy (59)

Broda (73)-Graovac (53)-Olson (71)

Van Stralen (51)-Thomas (58)-Merchant (75)

Defensemen

Brodin (40)-Kampfer (23)

Medvec (67)-Seeler (76)

Saunter (33)-Jobke (74)

Goalies

Hackett

Howe

Michael Russo has covered the National Hockey League since 1995. He has covered the Minnesota Wild for the Star Tribune since 2005, after 10 years of covering the Florida Panthers for the Sun-Sentinel. He uses “Russo’s Rants” to feed a wide-ranging hockey-centric discussion with readers, and can be heard weekly on KFAN (100.3 FM) radio and seen weekly on Fox Sports North.